Cookie Notice

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file containing a unique identification number that is transferred (through your browser) from a website to the hard drive of your computer’s hard drive or mobile device when you visit the website. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another. These files are then used by websites to identify when you revisit that website.

Cookies are mostly used to allow websites to function, or to function more efficiently, as well as to provide information to website owners. Cookies can also be used to establish anonymised statistics about the browsing experience on our sites. The information does not usually directly identify you, but it can give you a more personalised web experience. The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies we need your permission.

Use of cookies

McGill and Partners. uses cookies for many different reasons. We may collect information about your computer, including your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration purposes. This is statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns and does not identify you as an individual. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services. You consent to our cookies if you continue to use our website. The website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the website. This helps us to deliver a better and more personalised service to you when you browse the website and also allows us to improve the website.

Different types of web cookies

Session Cookies

Session cookies are used to remember details during a single visit to our website; they expire as soon as you leave our website. McGill and Partners uses these cookies to remember the information you have entered from page to page. We deem these session cookies as necessary to the working of the website. If these are disabled then various functions of the website may not work to your satisfaction.

Persistent Cookies

Persistent cookies are used for website analytics and reporting. We use this information to ensure the website works properly for customers and to understand how the site is being used in order to improve your experience. User data is anonymous.

Third Party Cookies

Third party cookies are used to track where you have come from, for example if you were referred to us by another website by collecting anonymous data. This lets us reward some external websites for referring customers to us.

You’ll sometimes see our advertising or special offers on other websites. Cookies provided by the other website or advertising network can tell us how effective this is. For example, if you click on one of our advertisements, the website owner might use a cookie to tell us that you came from their site.

Cookies by themselves can’t be used to find out the identity of any user. The information is completely anonymous and doesn’t contain any of your personal data. Unless you choose to tell then, the third-party sites will never know who you are even if they assign you a browser cookie.

IP Addresses and Cookies

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration. We may also use ‘cookies’ to monitor how people use our website.

Cookies we use

  • ga:
    This cookie is used for Google Analytics to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier.
    Expiry: 2 years
  • gat:
    This cookie is used for Google Analytics to throttle request rate.
    Expiry: At End Of Session
  • gid:
    This cookie is used for Google Analytics to store and update a unique value for each page visited.
    Expiry: 1 day
  • gcl_au:
    Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services.
    Expiry: 3 months
  • Secure-3PSIDCC:
    Cookie Provider: google.com. Targeting cookie. Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising.
    Expiry: 2 years
  • Secure-3PSID:
    Cookie Provider: google.com. Targeting cookie. Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising.
    Expiry: 2 years
  • SID:
    Cookie Provider: youtube.com. Used for security purposes to store digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time which allows Google to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorised parties. This can also be used for targeting purposes to show relevant & personalised ad content.
    Expiry: 1 year
  • SIDCC:
    Cookie Provider: google.com. Security cookie to protect a user’s data from unauthorized access.
    Expiry: Persistent
  • SSID:
    Cookie Provider: google.com. Used to store information about how you use the website and any advertising that you may have seen before visiting this website, in addition to being used to help customise advertising on Google properties by remembering your most recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results and your visits to an advertisers website.
    Expiry: 1 year
  • Secure-3PAPISID:
    Cookie Provider: google.com. Targeting cookie. Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising.
    Expiry: 2 years
  • SAPISID:
    Cookie Provider: google.com. Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising.
    Expiry: 1 year
  • APISID:
    Cookie Provider: .google.com. Targeting cookie. Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising.
    Expiry: 1 year
  • HSID:
    Cookie Provider: .google.com. Used for security purposes to store digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time which allows Google to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorised parties. This can also be used for targeting purposes to show relevant & personalised ad content.
    Expiry: 1 year
  • 1P_JAR:
    Cookie Provider: google.com. Collect website statistics and track conversion rates.
    Expiry: 30 days
  • 1P_JAR:
    Cookie Provider: gstatic.com. Targeting cookie. This cookie sets a unique ID to remember your preferences and other information such as website statistics and track conversion rates.
    Expiry: 30 days
  • IDE:
    Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.
    Expiry: 1.5 Year
  • RUL:
    Used by DoubleClick to determine whether website advertisement has been properly displayed – This is done to make their marketing efforts more efficient.
    Expiry: 1 Year
  • DSID:
    These cookies set by a third party (DoubleClick) and are used for serving targeted advertisements that are relevant to you across the web. Targeted advertisements may be displayed to you based on your previous visits to this website. For example, advertisements about a topic you have expressed an interest in while browsing our site may be displayed t you across the web. In addition, these cookies measure the conversion rate of ads presented to the user.
    Expiry: 1.5 Years
  • NID:
    These cookies set by a third party (Google) contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language
    Expiry date: 6 months
  • SEARCH_SAMESITE:
    Allow servers to mitigate the risk of CSRF and information leakage attacks by asserting that a particular cookie should only be sent with requests initiated from the same registrable domain.
    Expiry date: 5 months and 2 days

Cookie Consent Policy

Currently we operate an ‘implied consent’ policy which means that we assume you are happy with this usage. If you are not happy, then you should either not use this site, or you should delete the McGill and Partners cookies having visited this site, or you should browse the site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting (called “Incognito” in Chrome, “InPrivate” for Internet Explorer, “Private Browsing” in Firefox and Safari etc.)

Email Tracking

In order to check whether emails we send are effective we will sometimes use tools that show us which emails have been opened, responded to or forwarded.

Keeping you informed

When you provide us with your contact details and “opt in” to us contacting you, this means you consent to being contacted by post, email and telephone.  If you no longer wish to hear from us, you can opt out at any time by email to leadenhall.reception@mcgillpartners.com.

If you have more than one address or email address please make sure to notify any changes to your preferences for each address or email address you have registered with us.

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McGill and McGill and Partners are registered trading names of McGill and Partners Ltd and MGP McGill and Partners Europe Limited. McGill and Partners is also a d/b/a name of McGill Global Risk Solutions LLC.

McGill and Partners Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under firm reference number 927379. MGP McGill and Partners Europe Limited is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland under reference number C433022. McGill Global Risk Solutions LLC (dba McGill Global Risk Insurance Solutions in California; in Nebraska, dba McGill Global Risk LLC) is a Delaware limited liability company conducting (re)insurance intermediary services in the US. The McGill and Partners group also includes McGill and Partners Bermuda Limited, incorporated in Bermuda and registered as an insurance and reinsurance broker with the Bermuda Monetary Authority with registration no. 202100177, and McGill and Partners Australia Pty Limited, an Australian company conducting non-life reinsurance intermediary services.